Professor
Perritt's book on final status, The Road to Independence
for Kosovo: A Chronicle of the Ahtisaari Plan, will be published
by Cambridge University Press in late 2009

Professor Perritt's
book on the KLA

"Kosovo Liberation
Army: The Inside Story of an Insurgency," has been published
by University of Illinois Press and Koha Ditore

Copies
can be ordered from the Press
website, from www.amazon.com,
or at (800) 621-2736. European orders, including orders from
Kosovo can
be placed
by e-mail
and
credit card
with the publisher's European sales office in south England
at this address: trade.orders@marston.co.uk

Albanian
language version, ISBN 978-9951-417-07-5, can be ordered
from Koha Ditore in Prishtina, Republic of Kosovo

In August, 2008, Bradley
Faber, member of the Illinois bar, and 2007 graduate of Chicago-Kent,
travelled to the Republic of Kosovo with Professor Perritt. Mr. Faber
met with senior government officials, USAID, the leadership of AUK,
farmers,
businessmen
and
other agriculture experts to collect data in support of his analysis
of the potential of Kosovo's agricultural sector.

Professor Perritt presented
copies of his book on the KLA to former KLA soldiers and commanders
and met with members of Kosovo's cultural community in support of
his effort to help Kosovo "export" its artists, musicians and athletes
to build international support for Kosovo.

Victoria Hayes completes Rule of Law Externship
with Women’s
Safety and Security Initiative in Kosovo

During the summer of 2008 Chicago-Kent 2L Victoria Hayes worked
as a Rule of Law Extern for the Women’s Safety and Security
Initiative in Kosovo, assisting in the preparation of Kosovo’s
National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking for 2008-2011

Professor
Perritt's song about the KLA: "Fire
for the Colors" in streaming audio; CDs and
.mp3 versions available from http://cdbaby.com/cd/tsandusky;
www.amazon.com (search for "Fire for the Colors" or "Tim
Sandusky"); iTunes (search for "Fire for the Colors" or
"Tim Sandusky")

Chad
Mair, JD 2007, Chicago-Kent, spent the last several months of 2007
and the first few months of 2008 as a member of the defense team for
Idriz Balaj, one of Ramush Haradinaj's co-defendants, helping with
trial presentation. While he was a law student, Mr. Mair had worked
with Professor Perritt to analyze issues arising from application
of traditional doctrines from the Law of Armed Conflict to irregular
guerrilla insurgencies, such as the KLA. He spent the Spring Vacation
of his last year in law school with the Balaj defense team in The
Hague. In the photograph below, Mair is pictured with Gregor Guy-Smith,
chief defense counsel for Balaj

3L
Melinda Bair will spend two weeks in March working as a ROLX
for MDA, an economic and business consulting firm operated
by three young Kosovars. See www.seemda.com

Chicago-Kent students
discuss ICTY prosecutions of KLA commanders with
head of
Association
of Defense Counsel, Gregor Guy-Smith

Ed Pauker assists Special
Chamber of the Supreme Court of Kosovo on privatization

Independent Research
paper: Edward Pauker, Procedure and Privatization in Kosovo:
A Critique and Assessment of the Special Chamber (.html
version) (Word
version)

May-June, 2006 Trip and Projects

Research-Assistant Jeff LaMirand,
Rule-of-Law-Extern Ed Pauker and Professor Perritt were in Kosovo
from 24 May to 5 June 2006. Mr. Pauker will remain for the rest of
the summer, working in the Special Chamber of the Supreme Court of
Kosovo on privatization cases. Mr. Pauker also is preparing a paper
on international claims resolution for claims growing out of the
Kosovo conflict and movement toward independence. Mr. LaMirand conducted
research on corruption in Kosovo and is preparing a paper on anti-corruption
strategies. He also interviewed young people and small entrepreneurs
and is preparing an analysis of job creation strategies for Kosovo.

Professor Perritt assisted his two students, and explored
translating his forthcoming book, The Kosovo Liberation Army: Inside
Story of an Insurgency, and his song, “Fire for the Colors:
a Song of the KLA,” into Albanian.

Several "generations"
of Chicago-Kent students have worked to generate interest in tourism
in Kosovo. The links in this section provide information about visiting
Kosovo. You should note, however, that "GoKosovo.co" is
an independent corporation, organized by several students, which presently
is inactive. Likewise, the website, www.gokosovo.com, is inactive.
So the information provided here is useful to those who might want
to go to Kosovo on their own. There are no GoKosovo tours.

Workers protest
outside the Kosovo Trust Agency against the halt in Privatization and to demand their back wages and
pensions.

What is Operation
Kosovo?Initiatives to
support democracy, the rule of law, and market-based economic development
in the Balkans and Eastern Europe.

Since 1998, students
at the Illinois Institute of Technology and Chicago Kent College
of
Law have worked together on "Operation Kosovo," an initiative
to promote the rule of law, democracy, civil society and economic
development in Kosovo. Students have worked in Chicago and travelled
to Kosovo to analyze economic development programs, to evaluate measures
to reduce corruption, to create
a tourism
market
for
Kosovo, to evaluate the Special Chamber of the Supreme Court
of Kosovo and to assist in its work on privatization controversies,
to conduct research for a book on the Kosovo Liberation Army,
to
participate
in legal
representation
of former KLA commanders accused of violations of the law of international
armed conflict, to evaluate options for the American University in
Kosovo to establish a program of legal education, and to
assist the University of Prishtina Law Faculty develop externships
and a clinical program.

Several Interprofessional Projects (IPROs) and seminars at Chicago-Kent College
of Law and the Illinois Institute of Technology have contributed to this
site.

Special
thanks to Charles Rudnick, Julian Mulla, Jonathan Peizer, IV Ashton, Scott
Waguespack, Nicole Thibodeaux, Tim Grochocinski, and a
number
of students who have participated in past seminars and IPROs and played
key
roles.

An earlier version of this site
was made possible due to donations from Sun Microsystems.